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Brother MFC Control Panel - Scan

I have not upgraded yet. Does anyone know if the Brother control panel still works? I use the scanning feature everyday for signed documents and the like and really need that. I have a 7820N set-up through router and connected wirelessly to computers. I can scan from it and obviously print. Thanks

Late 2008 Macbook, Mac OS X (10.5.8), 2,4 GHZ, 4GB RAM, 320 GB HD

Posted on Aug 29, 2009 6:02 AM

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Ando5

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Posted on Aug 29, 2009 6:42 AM

Yes it does, I've upgraded and it works fine in 32bit mode and it will also download new drivers make sure you have the latest version.

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Sep 8, 2009 12:41 PM in response to Charles Dyer

i still don't see the 'scan' tab/option....... what am i doing wrong?

Sep 8, 2009 12:47 PM in response to Stryke Chng

this thread may help:

http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10146515#10146515

DavidJ

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Sep 8, 2009 2:22 PM in response to Stryke Chng

As long as I continued to use a wireless connection between the computer and the 7820N, I did not find the "scan/print" buttons in the Snow Leopard "Print & Fax" preference panel. Once I connected them by USB, the "scan" and "print" buttons appeared. Brother and Apple apparently have not worked out the way to make this device work fully under 10.6

Sep 9, 2009 1:55 AM in response to DavidJ

I understand now... my MFC is on the wireless network. Not a big problem cos I installed the latest twain drivers from Brother and control center came back. What irks me is that walk-up scan to my Mac is only working if I turn off the OS's firewall, but stopped when I turn it on. There isn't any dialog box that ask me to grant access for the incoming data at all, so I do not know which app/service to add to the allowed list in the firewall preferences. Any ideas?

DavidJ

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Sep 9, 2009 5:05 AM in response to Stryke Chng

Where are the latest Twain drivers downloaded from? And does anyone know how to get the wireless scanning function to operate under SL?

Sep 9, 2009 5:12 AM in response to DavidJ

got it from Brother's website. version 3.2

tunts

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Sep 10, 2009 7:02 PM in response to Charles Dyer

Followed your advice. I was disappointed that I did not have access to Brother Control Panel. I scan documents a lot. After discovering Preview has a scanning function, I was thrilled. It works a lot faster and better than control panel. Thanks for the info.

Brother MFC Control Panel - Scan